Emmylou Harris – Profile 2-Best Of (CD)

Emmylou Harris spent the 1970s and '80s building one of the most consequential catalogs in American roots music, translating the cosmic country vision she developed alongside Gram Parsons into a string of honky-tonk and folk-tinged recordings that connected traditional country to a broader, hipper audience. Her Hot Band brought together some of the finest session players and road musicians of the era, and her interpretive instincts, what she chose to record and how, quietly shaped the sound of country for a generation of artists who followed.